Allen & Co.

“You are supposed to come from Tuesday through Sunday, which is a long time. You're a busy founder, think you'll come in Wednesday because, you know, you got a team product meeting on Tuesday. No, no, no.”

“To me, it just feels exactly like a week-long Met Gala, right, in terms of it being, like, not actually relevant to anything, but having cultural power.”

“And so the companies, like you're pointing out, that show up at any of the conferences very much are the companies in play on the chessboard right now. If you're not in play, you're not there. And that's how it goes.”